Brewfest

Brewfest is a rowdy celebration featuring large festival camps set up outside of Orgrimmar and Ironforge, with smaller camps set outside of each major city. At the main camps, players will find quests, vendors, and everflowing kegs of brew! World of Warcraft's Brewfest is an in-game version of the Bavarian fair Oktoberfest, complete with its own special festival music and activies.

Players can participate in a variety of zany events during Brewfest, including racing rams and fetching kegs of brew, catching wolpertingers and even zapping pink elekks! Completing the daily quests available during Brewfest awards players with Brewfest Prize Token which can then be used as a currency to purchase festival clothing and other special items. Brewfest also features an event-only boss, Coren Direbrew, who drops epic quality items and even has a chance to drop rare mounts - the Great Brewfest Kodo or Swift Brewfest Ram!

Completion of the six holiday achievements specified by Brewmaster will grant a player title Brewmaster <Name>.

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Comment by muhawka

Comment by Gwyndylyn

Brewfest will always have fond memories for me... I first started playing WoW during Brewfest, 2007. Or was it 2006... dang alcohol blurring my memory...

Comment by jojjo00

for us dwarves its brewfest everyday!

Comment by Hakunamatata

You get prize tokens during the event, which you can spend on these (A | H) items.

EDIT: updated item links

Comment by Brewdosa

Quote fromWindscar :You need 550 tokens, if you are aiming to do the achievement this year. It will be tough if you don't like ram racing. (Hat + Dress + Boots + Membership)

40 tokens For killing Diren Corebrew and handing in the quest. (Once only)0-48 tokens - 2 per ram race (up to twice daily, max 24 a race, 18 hour cooldown since you started your last race.)15 tokens for barking either brew within the city on the ram (daily, ride ram to 4 areas.)10 tokens For defending against the Dark iron attacks (daily, every 30 minutes the Dark Iron appear with their machines and attempt to steal the booze, you pick up the mugs on the tables and chuck it at them, if you successfully defend the beer, an item spawns in the middle that looks like a gear and you take the quest.)

14 days for the duration of the festival, 15 if you started the dailies on Saturday morning before dailies reset (before 4 a.m)

1062 tokens if you are started event after 4 a.m on Sept. 201135 tokens if you started event between 12am - 4am on Sept. 20

Comment by ratobaraj

Am I missing something, or is there no special brewfest stein this year? I was hopeing to add to my collection.

Comment by CFour

It appears yet again the seasonal has not been updated :(

Still ilvl 200 trinkets and while the dungeon finder change is an improvement I was hoping for an updated event like midsummer

Comment by Unpossible

Yes, Coren Direbrew does drop ilevel 200 trinkets as he did the previous year.

However, This year you will find that when you kill Coren for the first time each day you will get a "Treasure Keg" (I believe that's the item name) in your bags. Open the Keg and you have a chance at additional items:

So, no, you're not going to be getting anything amazing this year. But do you really ever, outside of pets, mounts, and playthings? Not really.

Anything they could have put into this year's Brewfest that was better than last year's wouldn't last you too long anyhow with the rate at which Frost Badges can be obtained.

Two Frost badges a day is going to add up to an extra 30 Frost Badges throughout the Brewfest event, which is nearly an item in and of itself (and an ilevel 251 item at that). And 2 badges that takes literally less than 60 seconds to earn after entering through an incredibly quick Dungeon Finder tool is nothing to sneeze at.

I don't see anything to complain about here, especially since if the mount drops it's automatically yours and you no longer have to hope for a single mount to drop after two weeks and 75 runs (15 days at 5 runs a day for a full party) only to see the noob that is only level 77 roll a 100 on it and win it.

Enjoy the game and stop worrying about "zomg phat lewts that I will replace within a week!"

This is a fun event ... try to have fun.

Comment by luckyrps13

You can not buy and then sell back the brewfest clothes. just tryied on 9/20/10 the vendor will not take it back. so you will need the 552 tokens to get all the achevments. or 550 if your lucky enough to win a mount.

Comment by Urythmic

You don't need the clothes achieve anymore, so it should only take 200 tokens for the Brew of the Month Club to get Brewmaster. Right?

Comment by zariem

Anyone know how many tokens you can get per day? I need the brew of the month club for my Violet drake. Wish I'd done it last year, lol.

Comment by SykoSoul

By Brewdosa 2 days ago (Patch 3.3.5)----Quote from Windscar :You need 550 tokens, if you are aiming to do the achievement this year. It will be tough if you don't like ram racing. (Hat + Dress + Boots + Membership)

40 tokens For killing Diren Corebrew and handing in the quest. (Once only)0-48 tokens - 2 per ram race (up to twice daily, max 24 a race, 18 hour cooldown since you started your last race.)15 tokens for barking either brew within the city on the ram (daily, ride ram to 4 areas.)10 tokens For defending against the Dark iron attacks (daily, every 30 minutes the Dark Iron appear with their machines and attempt to steal the booze, you pick up the mugs on the tables and chuck it at them, if you successfully defend the beer, an item spawns in the middle that looks like a gear and you take the quest.)

14 days for the duration of the festival, 15 if you started the dailies on Saturday morning before dailies reset (before 4 a.m)

1062 tokens if you are started event after 4 a.m on Sept. 201135 tokens if you started event between 12am - 4am on Sept. 20---

Ally :- Bark for the Barleybrews!- Bark for the Thunderbrews!You can only do one of the two above, If you do the Barleybrew's one, you can't do the Thunderbrew's one, and vice versa.- This One Time, When I Was Drunk...

Horde :- Bark for Drohn's Distillery!- Bark for T'chali's Voodoo Brewery!You can only do one of the two above, If you do the Drohn's one, you can't do the T'chaly's one, and vice versa.- This One Time, When I was Drunk

Comment by Lurelina

Some new things I learned for '10 Brewfest,1) The daily with Coren is no longer available. You can only get to him through the Dungeon Finder.2) I was told the mounts no longer drop from Coren, but from the barrel you get the first time you do him that day. You can also get frosties from the barrel.3) Unfortunately, no new stein. Just a green one like last year :( (Would've been awesome if it was red or orange or something like that this year)EDIT:Confirmed. The mounts come from the keg-shaped treasure chest. I got my kodo from it a day ago.

Comment by zulmas

The quest "Pink Elekks On Parade" is not obtainable this year, however i did manage to pick it up, I'm still unable to turn it in .... (for those who look for more tokens...)

Comment by pkizzle86

Not being able to sell back the items is sort of dumb. I understand Blizzard wants to add as many time sinks to their time sink so they can have a time sink for more time sinks....yo, but seriously. These quests aren't "that" fun or entertaining and having to do them for two weeks just to get a title is disappointing. =o

I'm especially p/oed after reading you can sell the stuff back and then trying it after doing the dtp sheev to only find out that I have to wait 6-7 more days for Brewmaster since it isn't part of the meta anymore (no I didn't check the achievement meta cuz I thought you could sell the stuff back still).

c'mon blizz....

Comment by TheEgolf

By far, the best holiday event in World of Warcraft. Nothing like racing rams, getting smashed, and getting some BRD action!

Comment by Azunyan

A pretty awesome holiday. You can get totally smashed along with friends and people you've never met before, but you don't get those rough mornings the next day or contemplating about any bad decisions you may have made the previous night, and not get arrested for Mounting Under the Influence.

Comment by redheadsRbetter

i was wondering if the Noble hops come out during this time.... working on my cooking and i know the sous chef in org suppose to carry these and were recently taken out and to be put back in the patches to come. but. someone had asked or told me that they come out during brewfest and i have to wait... I searched all of brewfest vendors etc. and nothing speaks of it... im hoping someone can confirm that this is a rumor

Comment by x5992

I hope they update Brewfest for 2011. I would love new dailies, new armor, weapons, a flying mount, Brewfest tabard...

Comment by tankuid

This wow event is my favorite because I know it is time for the real thing... Nothing like a day out at Oktoberfest then come home and spend a few hours having fun at Brewfest.

updated loot looks nice but why is there no update Brewfest mug or a flying mount?

Comment by Artist

I just wanted to add that this is a perfect opportunity for anyone who still needs to do their "Needy" achievement since you can farm this guy as much as you like.

"Got My Mind On My Money" achievement also comes to mind because this guy drops between 17 and 22g per kill (17-22g per member in a 5 man group) and takes less than 2 minutes to kill.

Edit: He also drops mounts this year (or did he drop them last year too?), Ram just dropped, still waiting for my kodo.

Edit #2: It seems that blizzard changed the gold you loot to a much lower value, been getting anything between 4 silver and 1 gold today. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.

Comment by Taellis

Im curious. The brewfest music seems to have ppl talking. For alliance its dwarf voices and horde has goblin voices. I can't understand all of what they say, does anyone know?

Comment by Dkmac

Just wondering if Blizzard is going to update Brewfest in 2012? To keep up with the time line in game. After all the dark iron dwarfs now have a representative sitting on the council of Ironforge.

Comment by Drauken

a tip for those making the daily quest of the barrels..

Along the way there are 4 "drums" (don't know excately what tey are) that refresh your ram fatigue (submited a screenshot to help finding them)

1 almost inside the tent were you get the quest1 near the bridge1 near the little hill1 passing a little bit the guy that throws you the barrel

If you hit them with your ram, the fatigue counter goes to zero, so, you can go at maximum speed full time

hope that helps =]

Comment by Hiry

That time of the year, when u just can drink drink drink and drink more.

Comment by Taellis

They are barrels of apples =)A few tips:-The quest doesn't go in your quest log and is not abandonable in case you mess up. Where you would normally hit "Accept" you will see "Complete Quest". Hitting that will apply the ram buff to you and put reins in your bags.-Equip the reins to your action bar.-Be sober so you can steer and see straight. Try Starfire Espresso to sober up.-Dismount before accepting the quest to ensure you get your ram correctly.-Wait to hit any movement buttons or to use your reins for one second after you see your ram appear. Otherwise the ram can glitch and despawn.-Have 3 empty spots minimum in your bags before accepting the quest. One for tokens, one for barrels, and one for reins. Remember that tokens stack to 200, so you may still need the empty slot for overflow even if you have an incomplete stack already.-Do a test run of your route on a ground mount before accepting. Know where your barrels are. If you are having trouble use raid world markers while in a party to mark the barrels and npcs.-If you are having a hard time with latency and can't get the barrels to refresh as you pass, try to run square into them so they stop you. Once your fatigue resets, jump to free yourself. Also, try not to run neck and neck with other players.There's a good description and a map of another method at icy-veins.com, though I don't use the strategy it was informative to see the map.

My route, the long version (12 barrels with mistakes and some latency): skip to summary if you don't want to readAlso the most efficient way that I have found to do it is to only hit 3/4 barrels. I skip the one at the end behind the guy that throws me the keg unless I miss the one before it (behind the bone fence). If the fatigue reset doesn't apply at the second barrel (happens frequently with higher latency) then I stop hitting the reins before I cross the road. That usually drops me from a gallop to a canter at 85-90 and gives me time to get the barrel #3 behind the fence without exhaustion kicking in. I stop 20 yards before the guy who throws me a keg and it appears in my bags right before I hit barrel #3 again (watch for it, you may need to adjust where you turn if the keg doesn't appear by barrel #3). I always go through the tent and jump over the fence in the pen behind it.

A summary of my route 12 barrels per run with mistakes and some latency:Ram Master RayBarrel #1 in pen behind tentBarrel #2 between tents, archers and fires in dranosh'ar blockade encampmentBarrel #3 to the north of the road behind a fence 60-70 yds away from BokBok DropcertainBarrel #4 Just behind Bok, skip this barrel unless you miss barrel #3

Start at Ram Master RayRun through tent and jump over pen fence to get barrel #1Bear left past campfires, head between red tents to get to barrel #2Cross the road and head between 2 large rocks, go behind the fence to your left to get barrel #3Turn around 20 yds short of Bok Dropcertain for him to throw you a barrelGo back to Barrel #3Head down the road and between the rocks, jump over the crates to barrel #2Left around the fires and fence, jump into pen for barrel #1 and Ram Master RayTurn around in the tent and repeatLate post, I know. Hopefully it will help a few, and there's always next year.

Comment by shamanwars

Always love those holidays at wow. Brewfest is my favorite. I was so drunked that i didn't see anything for hours but i was still playing duels with other drunk people. It was really awesome :D

Comment by Kurotenshi8

I can almost Guarantee, that Brewfest will go through the most Changes come "Mist" considering the lore behind the Pandaren

Comment by AdvancedHunter

The best holiday at wow

Comment by Marcyon

Blizzard Said Brewfest Will Be Delayed This Year So Players Can Actually Get To 89 (Required Level For Boss) Before It Is Over ^.^

Comment by Hildur

This is what a blue post said about Brewfest 2012

Hey guys,

We are aware that many of you are concerned about not having enough time to level up and such, which is a concern we fully acknowledge, as we know that many of you would like to enjoy and experience the new areas and content at your own pace, and not feel like you have to rush through things and level up as fast as possible just to have a go at the Brewfest dungeon boss.

Therefore, In order to make sure you guys have some more time to prepare for this year's Brewfest, we have pushed the whole event forward by just over a week, stopping short of overlapping with the Hallow's End event.

However a start date, or how much time you have to level to 89 has not been announced(at least not that I have seen). Maybe calendars will be updated with the pre-patch? If it means a week from the 20th that would only leave a little more than 2 days to level to 89 before it starts and have the most chances possible to get the mount. In the beta calendar atm it begins on sept.28th.

Comment by namilea

Heres a link to a video on how to do the ram racing quests and how to get the most tokens out of it. (Horde and Alliance)

Comment by Reignac

The origin of Brewfest is recounted in the graphic novel Pearl of Pandaria.

The famous pandaren brewmaster Chen Stormstout, having been overwhelmingly recommended to try Thunderbrew beer, found his way to Dun Morogh and Grimbooze Thunderbrew at Thunderbrew Distillery, challenging the dwarf to a drinking contest to decide who was the better brewer.

In the end, when the two were nearly passed out, Chen declared Grimbooze to be superior. However, Grimbooze liked Chen's beer more. After a brief and lighthearted argument, the two decided to hold a contest in Dun Morogh for all dwarves to taste their drinks and decide. Coren Direbrew whined his way into getting a position in the contest as well. In the end, Chen and Grimbooze were neck-in-neck while Coren only had two votes, one from himself and one from Chen out of pity. The Dark Iron attacked them in anger, and Chen fought him off. Grimbooze's brew was declared the victor by a single vote.

The festival continued annually, with the Gordok ogres replacing Coren and the Barleybrew dwarves replacing Chen, eventually evolving into the modern Brewfest. Coren Direbrew, never forgetting his humiliation, has led attacks on the festival every year since.

Comment by x5992

With Brewfest 2013 a month away I hope Blizzard updates this WE.

And I don't just mean changing the stats on existing gear either.

I've been doing this WE since the first year they introduced it. I use to always look forward it, but now I have the mounts and pets...

Personally I'd like some new quests and dailies. Keep the old ones fine, but give us something new to do this year. New flying mount. Brewfest themed armor....chest, shoulders, helmet.

Comment by firestarcat

are you over lvl 21 .. you are ok have a brewfest beer haha!

Comment by Longeria

No new trinkets (470 itemlevel), or they are not upgraded yet :\',date:

Comment by sandreid87

No remote this time? D:

Comment by Photogen

An interesting little trick I've found out for the Dark Iron Dwarf invasion(Still works for patch 5.4):

You can use your pet/elemental/demon to grab the spinning mugs. By using the "/petmoveto" macro, you're free to drink while acquiring the spinning mugs. Using this method, we we're able to beat the Dark Iron Dwarves with only 3 people. I use my turtle as his spin let's me know he's touched the spinning mug. Some pets, however, will not spin but still throw around mugs.

Bottoms Up!

UPDATE: I was just able to accomplish the gear with only 1 other person. Another thing to add is your pet will NOT get bashed around by the Dark Iron Dwarves.

Comment by Phoenixgold

As of Patch 5.4, nearly all references in quests and achievements of the requirement of being drunk have been removed, usually deferring the use of Synthebrew Goggles, and the Complimentary Brewfest Sampler has been renamed and replaced by Alcohol-Free Brewfest Sampler.

Now, I know that the option for drunken revelry still exists, but HONESTLY!

Comment by skunkart

Hey this year it might be worth noting that the toybox is coming so unless you want to wait till next year to grab stuff for your toybox get them now!